sched while atomic

Rune Torgersen runet at innovsys.com
Thu Feb 17 07:13:40 EST 2005


2.6.11rc2 and rc4 gives roughly the same message on an MPC8266

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
scheduling while atomic: swapper/0x00000002/0
Call trace:
 [c0006c30] dump_stack+0x18/0x28
 [c01ba970] schedule+0x670/0x674
 [c0003f20] syscall_exit_work+0x108/0x10c
 [c0244fc4] proc_root_init+0x144/0x150
 [00000000] 0x0
 [c023a5fc] start_kernel+0x138/0x164
 [000035fc] 0x35fc
NET: Registered protocol family 16

Kernel boots normally after this, and everything seems to work

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-dev-bounces at ozlabs.org 
> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of 
> danny at mailmij.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 17:15
> To: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> Subject: sched while atomic
> 
> 
> Latest 2.6.11rc* give me this interesting message at boot:
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> scheduling while atomic: swapper/0x00000002/0
> Call trace:
>  [c01c7580] schedule+0x640/0x6bc
>  [c0004698] syscall_exit_work+0x120/0x124
>  [c00a5414] proc_device_tree_init+0x7c/0x98
>  [c02be9b4] proc_root_init+0x14c/0x158
>  [c02a660c] start_kernel+0x178/0x1b0
>  [00003a5c] 0x3a5c
> 
> Since it doesn't happen on x86, I first thought it was 
> because of the ppc 
> specific init of the device_tree, but commenting this out 
> just lets it 
> happen somewhere else. It seems schedule is called when it 
> returns from a 
> syscall, which seems normal behaviour to me, but the recent 
> preempt_disable() in start_kernel makes the scheduler give 
> these warnings.
> So what's happening? 
> 
> Also, I think this is already know for a while:
> /lib/modules/2.6.11-rc3/kernel/drivers/video/vga16fb.ko needs unknown 
> symbol vgacon_remap_base
> 
> regards,
> 
> danny
> 
> 
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